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sweaty, a.|ˈswɛtɪ|
Forms: 4–5 swety, 6 swettie, 6–7 sweatie, 7 sweatty, swetty, 7– sweaty.
[f. sweat n. + -y.]
1. Causing sweat:
a. Heating, excessively hot.
b. Toilsome, laborious.
c1374Chaucer Former Age 28 The tyme..Þat men fyrst dede hir swety bysynesse To grobbe vp metal. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. v. iv, Spare no sulphurous jest that may come out of that sweatie forge of thine. 1600Cornwallis Ess. i. ii. C iij, The life of Industries first fruite is somewhat sweatie, and painful. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. i. 77 What might be toward, that this sweaty hast Doth make the Night ioyn-Labourer with the day. 1641Protestation Protested 10 Witnesse Dr. Hals sweatty discourses. 1673[R. Leigh] Transp. Reh. 21 Captain Zuinglius, and John Calvin, converted more with Swords and Guns, then with their sweaty Preaching. 1709Prior First Hymn of Callimachus 85 Those who labor The sweaty Forge. 1776Mickle Camoens' Lusiad ix. 370 And measured ecchoing shouts their sweaty toils attend. 1821Blackw. Mag. IX. 60 The sugar..which the hands of the sooterkin negro Reared..in the island of sweaty Jamaica. 1823Byron Juan xiii. xlviii, 'Tis..a pity..To lose those best months in a sweaty city. 1908Blackw. Mag. Dec. 770/1 Thank Heaven he's let us alone this sweaty afternoon.
c. Severe, demanding. colloq.
1919A. Lunn Loose Ends iii. 27 ‘It's a sweaty house for new men.’ Cluff shook his head sadly. ‘Yes, it's a hard life for new men.’ Ibid. xiii. 118 These Blues are sometimes rather sweaty. They think it lip if you cut your work for a man who's been a Blue. 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 85 I'm not trying to be sweaty or anything, but, um—just out of interest—how long have you known De Forest?
2. a. Covered with sweat; wet, moist, or stained with sweat.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 3 Hee..bayes His sweatie fore⁓head in the breathing wind. 1591― Daphn. iv, When the wearie Sun After his dayes long labour drew to rest, And sweatie steeds now hauing ouer run The compast skie, gan water in the west. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. ii. 247 The rabblement..threw vppe their sweatie Nightcappes. 1664Cotton Scarron. Wks. (1725) 126 His sweaty Pumps are in my Nose still. 1759B. Stillingfleet tr. Hasselgran's Swedish Pan in Misc. Tracts (1762) 345 The plants ought not to be handled by sweaty hands. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son lix, The groans of the slaves,..their sweaty brows, wan eyes, and galled backs.
b. Of persons: Laborious, toiling.
1603Dekker Wonderfull Yeare Wks. (Grosart) I. 108 The swetty hinde (that digs the rent he paies thee out of the entrailes of the earth) he is sent for. 1659W. Chamberlayne Pharonnida ii. 150 These glittering Jems had been By sweaty Labourers dig'd. 1667Milton P.L. xi. 434 Thither..A sweatie Reaper from his Tillage brought First Fruits.
c. transf. Full of or exuding moisture like sweat.
1600Surflet Country Farm iii. xxviii. 484 The apple tree..loueth to haue the inward part of his wood moist and swettie. 1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. Ded. xx, Then selfe-sown Wheat shall grow and ripen afield, And sweatie vent of oke pure honie yeild.
3. Consisting of sweat.
1731Swift Poems, Strephon & Chloe 12 No noisome whiffs, or sweaty streams.
Hence ˈsweatily adv.; also fig., anxiously, feverishly; ˈsweatiness.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 128/1 Terms of Art used in Barbing... Rub the Hair with a Napkin, is to dry it from its swettiness. 1727Bailey vol. II, Sweatiness. 1818Todd, Sweatily, so as to be moist with sweat; in a sweaty state. 1975Times 4 Sept. 12/8 Men talking sweatily about the upcoming upcurve in house prices. 1978W. F. Buckley Stained Glass iii. 21 On the occasions when they found themselves trapped in his company at a dinner party, they would sweatily engage other members of the party..in concentrated, often nonsensical, discussions. |